LONDON (Reuters) – A lottery winner doubled his share of the jackpot to nearly 1 million pounds after he mistakenly bought two lucky tickets for the same draw, organizers Camelot said Wednesday.
Derek Ladner, 57, from Cornwall, and his wife Dawn, 60, won with their usual numbers in the mid-week draw, sharing the 2.4 million pounds jackpot with four other tickets.
A week later, he found a second identical ticket in his wallet and realized he had absent-mindedly entered twice.
Now THAT’S lucky!
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And he did the mistake of telling his wife about the second ticket…
Hey, that’s nothing. I win the lottery twice a day! I just got another e-mail telling me I’d hit the jackpot!
So… does he keep the money or not? (The way it’s written, the implication is that it’s illegal to enter twice.)
#3…yeah…if you hold 5 tickets of the winning number, you win 5 parts of the total if there were (as in this case 4 winners…) more than 5 winners.
#1
When wives say:
“Your money.” She means “My money.”
“Our money.” She means “my money.”
“My money.” She means “my money.”
#4 – you got it. Nothing confuses the 7-Eleven guys more than when I give them a Lotto ticket with the five sets of identical picks. I tell them if there are six Lotto winners I’ll be five of them. Buying five different sets of picks does not appreciably increase my changes of winning, but five identical sets of picks will greatly increase my reward if I do.
#5 – Time to play Slap-A-Ho
jdm – That’s true if there are others with the same winning number. If not then you have to split it five ways with yourself.
@Angel H. Wong
even worse, I have to pay “asshole tax” to the wife
#9…ummmmm…no kids I’m betting. 🙂
#10 – working on it, even once we have kids I am sure she will come up with some way to make me pay be it with cash or my dignity